BadBrad - grunge conspiracy (CEO on BAM)

[DangerZone]

Here’s an interesting video on grunge shutting down the 80s.
Early on he holds up a BAM mag with CEO on the cover..

https://youtu.be/ERj9sLqxKGk?si=7jg_LiYkUHsfgSBw

[Tommy2Tone84]

It was more MTV shutting down the 80s beginning in 1992. It took about a year and was complete by 1993. A number of people act like Grunge was some huge thing by 1988, 1989 or 1990. That wasn’t true at all. Soundgarden wasn’t any bigger than Circus of Power in 1990. No one knew who they were and no one cared. Nirvana wasn’t a pimple on GNR’s ass in 1988. AIC was a bar band in 1989. Skid Row was platinum selling and world touring band opening for Bon Jovi and Aerosmith. AIC were still getting booed off arena stages in 1991 opening for Slayer and Megadeth.

[DangerZone]

It was more MTV shutting down the 80s beginning in 1992. It took about a year and was complete by 1993. A number of people act like Grunge was some huge thing by 1988, 1989 or 1990. That wasn’t true at all. Soundgarden wasn’t any bigger than Circus of Power in 1990. No one knew who they were and no one cared. Nirvana wasn’t a pimple on GNR’s ass in 1988. AIC was a bar band in 1989. Skid Row was platinum selling and world touring band opening for Bon Jovi and Aerosmith. AIC were still getting booed off arena stages in 1991 opening for Slayer and Megadeth.

did you even watch the vid, bro?

[PBFSUCKS]

Here’s an interesting video on grunge shutting down the 80s.
Early on he holds up a BAM mag with CEO on the cover..

https://youtu.be/ERj9sLqxKGk?si=7jg_LiYkUHsfgSBw

Bad Brad gives me the fucking creeps. Living in a family members basement while doing meth vibes.

[Tommy2Tone84]

It was more MTV shutting down the 80s beginning in 1992. It took about a year and was complete by 1993. A number of people act like Grunge was some huge thing by 1988, 1989 or 1990. That wasn’t true at all. Soundgarden wasn’t any bigger than Circus of Power in 1990. No one knew who they were and no one cared. Nirvana wasn’t a pimple on GNR’s ass in 1988. AIC was a bar band in 1989. Skid Row was platinum selling and world touring band opening for Bon Jovi and Aerosmith. AIC were still getting booed off arena stages in 1991 opening for Slayer and Megadeth.

did you even watch the vid, bro?

No, I’m not a big conspiracy huffer. I don’t view it as a conspiracy since MTV was out right transparent about it. Beginning in 1992 a number of the VJs were outwardly dissing on and making fun of not only hairbands but the 80s in general. While this attitude began with a number of the musicians that were in the Seattle scene, MTV jumped all over it after those bands started resonating with the country and audience at large. Let’s face it, the music industry business model often times is “let’s throw it up on the wall and see if it sticks.” When you read up on the industry, it kinda has an inmates running the asylum type of vibe. Bon Jovi’s friend, Jack Ponti (RIP) once commented in his 20Q’s that he laughed at all the suits and industry people surrounding the Bon Jovi camp who sh*t talked Jon and said he’d never make it, did a 180 and later told him how they always knew he’d make it. Sometimes the suits are just as clueless.

Nirvana, Pearl Jam and AIC, specifically began to stick at the very end of 1991. It was a slow burn at first. By spring of 1992 it was a full frontal assault on most artists from the 80s with a few exceptions. Madonna, Sting, U2, Metallica, GNR and even Ozzy were still considered “cool.” Revenge era KISS surprisingly got a lot of love or at least air time from MTV in 1992. Tesla did as well. While at the same time, the dissing by the likes of later personalities like Karen Duffy and even Rick The Poser Dick had begun. The original groups of VJs were cool and very respectable to all artists. They were true fans. The younger Gen Xers that later came in weren’t so much. The alternative artists, while out of one side of their mouths, praised Van Halen and KISS for being a big influence on them, would insult and verbally abuse two decades that both bands had a big hand in helping define out of the other side of their mouths. Billy Corgan comes to mind.

Look at REM. Their sheen even faded by the mid 90s. They just weren’t deemed “cool” anymore. There was this arrogant attitude. Chip had it for a long time on here. He seems to have finally grown out of it well into his 40s. It took him long enough.